Heather's Little Corner Redux

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Challenges

♥ 2018-2019 important TBR (cleaning out the TBR closet)
♥ Clear off those shelves (personal challenge)
♥ Popsugar Challenge
♥ Serial Reader
♥ Jar challenge
♥ Bingo Challenge
♥ Let's Turn Pages
♥ Author's Work Challenge
♥ All About Audio
♥ Reach 1000 books (personal challenge)/ 140ish something books in 2018!
♥ Reading University Challenge (continuing)

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2018-2019 important TBR (cleaning out the TBR closet)

Unorganized mess:
Broken Promise, Dune, Five Came Back, Seveneves, The Eye Of The World, Winter's Reach

Larson, Erik:
Thunderstruck

King, Stephen:
11/22/63, Bag of Bones, Black House, Blaze, Christine, Cujo, Cycle of the Werewolf, Dead Zone, Desperation, Dolores Claiborne, Dreamcatcher, Duma Key, Everything's Eventual, From a Buick 8, Full Dark, No Stars, Gerald's Game, Hearts in Atlantis, Insomnia, It, Joyland, Just After Sunset, Lisey's Story, Night Shift, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Revival, Rose Madder, Skeleton Crew, Sleeping Beauties, The Bachman Books, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, The Dark Half, The Girl who loves Tom Gordon, The Green Mile, The Regulators, The Stand, The Talisman, The Tommyknockers, Thinner

DNF Billy Blockade, Brave New World, Fear Nothing
Completed: Deja Dead, Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Never Look Away, Different Seasons, In The Tall Grass, Mile 81, Needful Things, Pet Sematary, The Eyes of the Dragon

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Cleaning Out These Shelves:

2009:
Wizard's First Rule, DNF Token of Darkness, It, DNF Something Wicked This Way Comes, Soulless
2010:
Burning Water, DNF The Bone Collector, ✔Deja Dead
2012:
To the Ends of the Earth, ✔Clementine, Twenty Years After, DNF Cloud Atlas
2013:
Parade's End

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Popsugar Challenge

1. A book made into a movie you’ve already seen:
Wonder Boys
2. True crime:
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
3. The next book in a series you started:

4. A book involving a heist:
DNF Grave Mercy

5. Nordic noir:

6. A novel based on a real person:
Maplecroft
7. A book set in a country that fascinates you:

8. A book with a time of day in the title:
Night Shift
9. A book about a villain or antihero:
Six of Crows
10. A book about death or grief:

11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym:
Lethal White (if it's actually published next year)
12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist:
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
13. A book that is also a stage play or musical:
The Woman in White
14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you:
The Kite Runner
15. A book about feminism: Not a chance in hell
16. A book about mental health:
Go Ask Alice
Girl, Interrupted
17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift:

18. A book by two authors:
Sleeping Beauties
19. A book about or involving a sport:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
20. A book by a local author:
21. A book with your favorite color in the title:

22. A book with alliteration in the title:

23. A book about time travel:
Both Sides of Time
24. A book with a weather element in the title:
Strange Weather
25. A book set at sea:
The Old Man and the Sea
26. A book with an animal in the title:

27. A book set on a different planet:

28. A book with song lyrics in the titles:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
29. A book about or set in Halloween:
DNF Something Wicked This Way Comes
30. A book with characters who are twins:

31. A book mentioned in another book:

32. A book from a celebrity book club:
The Alice Network
33. A childhood classic you’ve never read:

34. A book that’s published in 2018:

A Time Of Dread
35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner:
Seveneves
36. A book set in the decade you were born:
Postmortem
37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to:
Lost Souls
38. A book with an ugly cover:
The Haunting of Hill House
39. A book that involves a bookstore or a library:
DNF Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
40. You favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, 2017 PopSugar Reading Challenges:
Speaker for the Dead

Advanced
41. A bestseller from the year you graduated high school:
The Time Traveler's Wife
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (because I've completely over due for a re-read of this series)
42. A cyberpunk book:
Snow Crash
43. A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place:
44. A book tied to your ancestry:

45. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title:

Black and Orange
Code Orange
46. An allegory:
Lolita
It
47. A book by an author with the same first or last name as you:
Deadly Night
48. A microhistory:
Thunderstruck
49. A book about a problem facing society today:

50. A book recommended by someone else taking the PopSugar Reading Challenge:

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Serial Reader

I will finish 8 series I have started before this year. (?? books)

Gail Carriger: The Custard Protocol:
Competence

Stephen King: The Shining
Doctor Sleep

Anthony Zuiker: Level 26 Completed


Dean Koontz: Frankenstein
Lost Souls, The Dead Town

Justin Cronin
DNF The Twelve

John Gwynne
Valor, Ruin, Wrath

Camilla Lackberg: Patrik Hedstrom
Buried Angels, The Ice Child, The Girl in the Woods

Cherie Priest

The Inexplicables, Fiddlehead,

Ken Follett
, A Column of Fire
Winter of the World, Edge of Eternity

Stephen King: The Dark Tower
Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole

Jo Nesbo: Harry Hole Completed


Joe Abercrombie

The Blade Itself, Before They are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings, Sharp Ends

Orson Scott Card: Ender Universe

Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Flight

I will start these 3 series this year. (15 books)

Tana French

The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place, The Trespasser

Gail Carriger: Completed
Parasol Protectorate , , , ,
Finishing School


Read: 0/77

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Jar challenge

01. The Help
02. Persuasion
03. The Silent Boy
04. The Lovely Bones
05. Coraline
06. Psycho
07. The Ice Twins
08. Final Girls
09. The Woman in Black
10. Anansi Boys


The Alice Network, American Elsewhere, ✔ Anansi Boys,
Breakfast at Tiffany's,
The Call of Cthulhu, Catch-22, ✔ Coraline, Cuckoo Song,
The Devil Crept In, Dolores Claiborne,
✔ Final Girls, Five Came Back, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Forget Me Not, Full Dark, No Stars,
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue,
✔ The Help,
✔ The Ice Twins , The Iron Wyrm Affair,
Lolita, ✔ The Lovely Bones,
The Man in the High Castle, The Man in the Picture,
Painting the Darkness, Parade's End, ✔ Persuasion, ✔ Psycho,
Rebel Magisters,
✔ The Silent Boy, The Small Hand, Strange Weather,
The Thing on the Doorstep, To the Ends of the Earth,
Under the Black Flag,
The Virgin Suicides,
Washington's Spies, Washington: A Life, Whitechapel Gods, The Widows' Cafe, ✔ The Woman in Black

DNF The Killing Jar, Sense and Sensibility, Girl Last Seen

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Main Goal: 2 bingos or 10 books
Overall Goal: Whole card

Mystery: Faceless Killers
Historical Fiction: The Book Thief
Horror: Rosemary's Baby
First in a Series: Lord of Snow and Shadows
Page to Screen: The Three Musketeers
Historical Nonfiction: Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
New to Me Author: Then She Was Gone
Detective fiction: Snowblind
War time: Iron Gold
Lit. Fiction: In Cold Blood
Steampunk: Dreadnought
Space Opera: Shadow Puppets
Free Space: Soulless
High Fantasy: Blood Song
Co-Writers: Hollow Earth
Supernatural: Beautiful Creatures
Y.A. Fantasy: Heir of Fire
Crime Nonfiction: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Memoir: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Holocaust: Schindler's List
Fantasy: Scourged
Graphic Novel: From Hell
Sci-fi: Ink and Bone
Magical Realism: The Shadow of the Wind
Classic: All Quiet on the Western Front

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Let's Turn Pages

25,000 pages.

♥ January - April: 15,355
♥ May - August:
♥ September - December:

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Author's Work Challenge

Anne McCaffrey:
Dragonsdawn, The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall, Dragonseye, Dragon’s Kin, Dragon’s Fire, Dragon Harper, Dragonsblood, Dragonheart, Dragongirl, Dragon’s Time, Dragonrider, Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, Nerilka’s Story, Dragonflight, Dragonsong, Dragonquest, Dragonsinger, The White Dragon, Dragondrums, Masterharper of Pern, Renegades of Pern, The Girl Who Heard Dragons (anthology), All The Weyrs of Pern, The Dolphins of Pern, The Skies of Pern

David Weber
On Basilisk Station, The Honor of the Queen, The Short and Victorious War, Field of Dishonor, Flag in Exile, Honor Among Enemies, In Enemy Hands, Schoes of Honor, Ashes of Victor, War of Honor, At All Costs, Mission of Honor, A Rising Thunder

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All About Audio

I'm in for Executive Director and option 1 Freestyle. I'm starting with 2 books for each chosen category but I know some of them will go up.

Female Narrator
1. Etiquette & Espionage 2/4/18-2/5/18
2. The Girls in the Garden 4/30-5/01

Male Narrator
1. The Heroes 2/27/18-3/7/18
2. Drunken Fireworks 2/26/18-2/26/18

Celebrity Narrator
1. Two Kinds of Truth 12/20-12/20
2. The Help 1/2-1/4

New-to-me Narrator
1. Sleeping Giants 4/19-4/20
2. Waking Gods 4/24-4/25
3. The Girls in the Garden 4/30-5/1

Favorite Narrator
1. The Furthest Station 4/2/18-4/2/18
2. The Purloined Poodle 4/26-4/27
3. The Squirrel on the Train 4/27-4/28

Less Than 3 Hours
1. The Breathing Method 1/9-1/9
2. A War of Gifts 1/8/18-1/8/18
3. Mile 81 4/22-4/23
4. In the Tall Grass 4/21-4/21

3-5 hours
1. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons 1/15-1/15
2. The Silent Boy 2/1-2/1
3. The Furthest Station 4/2-4/2
4. Coraline 2/14/18-2/15-18

5-9 hours
04. The Body 1/8-1/8
05. Apt Pupil 1/9-1/9
06. Faceless Killers 1/10/18-1/12/18
07. Persuasion 1/24/18-1/24/18
08. Dark Prophecy 2/24/18-2/25/18
09. Dark Revelations 2/26/18-2/26/18
10. Clementine 3/13/18-3/14/18

10-14 hours
1. The Lovely Bones 2/2/18-2/4/18
2. Shadow of the Hegemon 2/8/18-2/10/18
3. Dreadnought 3/12/18-3/14/18
4. World Without End3/14/18-3/15-18
5. The Redeemer 3/19/18-3/21/18
6. The Eyes of the Dragon 3/22/18-3/24/18
7. The Broken Girls 5/14-5/14

15-19 hours
1. The Snowman 3/24/18-3/27/18
2. Phantom 4/6/18-4/9/18

20-24 hours
1. The Three Musketeers 4/11-4/17
2. The Leopard 4/2/18-4/6/18

25-29 hours
1. Needful Things 2/18/18-2/24/18
2. Wizard and Glass

30-34 hours
1. The Eye of the World
2.

35-39 hours
1. Cursor's Fury Captain's Fury
2. Brother Odd Odd Hours Deeply Odd Odd Apocalypse

40+ hours I'm "cheating" with this one and using it to finish two series: Codex Alera and Parasol Protectorate
1. Princeps' Fury First Lord's Fury
2. Soulless Changeless Blameless Heartless Timeless

Planes, Trains, or Auto
1. Red Country 3/9/18-3/22/18
2. In the Woods 5/10-5/12

Classic Read
1. Psycho 4/27-4/29
2. Murder on the Orient Express 4/29-4/30

Started: December 3, 2017
Finished: N/A

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Moving this post down in order to split up the books.

Reach 1000 books 133 books in 2018!
According to Goodreads, I am (as of right now) 164 books away from hitting 1,000 books. Now, this number isn't completely accurate because there are a lot of books from my childhood that I haven't bothered to add on here. However, I currently have 12 books sitting on my currently reading shelf (not counting Harry Potter for the 1,000 time) that I want to finish before this year is out. So, I'm hoping to hit or surpass, 152 148 133 next year. Prepare for a lot of tears.

[Susy]

Heather Codename: ♕Dutchess♕ wrote: "Reach 1000 books 152 books in 2018!
I can't remember all of the books I read as a child, which means my shelves are missing quite a few books. However, my current books I've read shelf says that I ..."

Wow 1000 books! That calls for a celebration! Like maybe rewarding yourself with a new book? :)

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I’m celebrating ahead of time and picking up three this weekend 😂😂

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Reading University Challenge

Started: 1/09/2017
Finished: 6/12/18

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Associates Degree

Science - Sci-Fi: Ready Player One
Literature: Wuthering Heights
History - Eurpoean: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Social Sciences - Psychological warfare: The Girl Who Played with Fire
Art - Art History: Norse Mythology
Language - Translated from Norwegen: The Son
Athletics - So. Much. Walking. And fighting. And running.: The Return of the King

Bachelors Degree

Major: Science - Science Fiction etc
1. Half the World
2. Half a War
3. Bloodkin
4. City of Night
5. Dead and Alive
6. Ender's Shadow
7. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
8. Bloodwitch
9. Hawksong
10. Rook

Minor: History
1. Alexander Hamilton
2. World's Fair
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Master's Degree - Science

Science Fiction:
1. A Dance with Dragons
2. Clockwork Princess
3. Sleeping Giants

Earth Science:
1. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
2. Eclipsed Heart
3. The Fireman

Life Science:
1. Snakecharm
2. Falcondance
3. Wolfcry

Applied Science:
1. Déjà Dead
2. Dreadnought
3. Death du Jour

Random:
1. Anna Dressed in Blood
2. The Handmaid's Tale
3. The Good Daughter

Ph. D - Science Fiction

1. Waistcoats & Weaponry
2. Soulless
3. Sleeping Giants
4. Waking Gods
5. Only Human
6. Curtsies & Conspiracies
7. Furies of Calderon
8. Academ's Fury
9. Cursor's Fury
10. Captain's Fury
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[Susy]

Heather Codename: ♕Dutchess♕ wrote: "I’m celebrating ahead of time and picking up three this weekend 😂😂"

Hahaha, good for you!! :)

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Reaching 1000 books: 1-70

01. A Court of Mist and Fury
02. The Help
03. Snowblind
04. A Court of Wings and Ruin
05. A War of Gifts
06. The Body
07. The Breathing Method
08. Apt Pupil
09. Iron Gold
10. Faceless Killers


11. Ink and Bone
12. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
13. Persuasion
14. The Silent Boy
15. The Lovely Bones
16. Etiquette & Espionage
17. Shadow of the Hegemon
18. Déjà Dead
19. Death du Jour
20. Coraline


21. Deadly Decisions
22. Needful Things
23. Dark Prophecy
24. Dark Revelations
25. Drunken Fireworks
26. The Heroes
27. Dreadnought
28. Clementine
29. World Without End
30. The Redeemer


31. Red Country
32. Sunburn
33. The Eyes of the Dragon
34. The Snowman
35. The Leopard
36. The Furthest Station
37. Phantom
38. Police
39. The Three Musketeers
40. Sleeping Giants


41. In the Tall Grass
42. Mile 81
43. What Angels Fear
44. Waking Gods
45. The Purloined Poodle
46. The Squirrel on the Train
47. Psycho
48. The Girls in the Garden
49. The Ice Twins
50. In the Woods


51. The Broken Girls
52. Murder on the Orient Express
53. Final Girls
54. Whiteout
55. Pet Sematary
56. Grave Mercy
57. The Thirst
58. Never Look Away
59. The Keeper of Lost Causes
60. Curtsies & Conspiracies


61. The Woman in Black
62. Waistcoats & Weaponry
63. Manners & Mutiny
64. A Shadow in Summer
65. Only Human
66. Then She Was Gone
67. Eclipsed Heart
68. Soulless
69. Changeless
70. Blameless

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Reaching 1000 books 71-133

71. Poison or Protect
72. The Breakdown
73. Spectral Heart
74. Eternal Heart
75. Scourged
76. Jar City
77. The Girlfriend
78. Brief Cases
79. Heartless
80. Timeless


81. Anansi Boys
82. Ganymede
83. Jacaranda
84. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
85. Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
86. The Last Wish
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Reserved for books 134+